Shinichi Suzuki
Every child grows; everything depends on the teacher.Collection: Teacher
Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.Collection: Knowledge
What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.Collection: Wisdom
Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart.Collection: Music
Children learn to smile from their parents.Collection: Smile
When love is deep, much can be accomplished.
Tone has the living soul.
It is necessary to be concerned about the importance of educating a really beautiful human spirit.
Any child can be developed, it depends on how you do it.
Man is a child of his environment.
Art expresses man.
Art is not in some far-off place. A work of art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability.
Art exists for the human species. I think that all of the people who love art, those who teach art, and all of you should burn with the obligation to save the world.
The fate of a child is in the hands of his parents.
Musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed. Any child who is properly trained can develop musical ability just as all children develop the ability to speak their mother tongue. The potential of every child is unlimited.Collection: Inspirational
Music is the language of the heart without words.Collection: Heart
If children hear fine music from the day of their birth and learn to play it, they develop sensitivity, discipline and endurance. They get a beautiful heart.Collection: Beautiful
An unlimited amount of ability can develop when parent and child are having fun together.Collection: Children
The heart that feels music will feel peopleCollection: Heart
Practise only as many times as you have breakfast.Collection: Breakfast
Perhaps it is music that will save the world.Collection: World
To make a resolution and act accordingly is to live with hope. There may be difficulties and hardships, but not disappointment or despair if you follow the path steadily. Do not hurry. This is a fundamental rule. If you hurry and collapse or tumble down, nothing is achieved. DO not rest in your efforts; this is another fundamental rule. Without stopping, without haste, carefully taking a step at a time forward will surely get you there.Collection: Disappointment
It is in our power to educate all the children of the world to become a little better as people, a little happier.Collection: Children
I have come to the definite conclusion that musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed.Collection: Musical Ability
I am mentally preparing myself for the five-year-old mind. I want to come down to their physical limitations and up to their sense of wonder and awe.Collection: Years
Patience is the absence of expectation.Collection: Expectations
Anything you think of doing, however insignificant, should be done immediately. Spur yourself on and carry it through without becoming discouraged. If this becomes an ingrained habit, things you thought were impossible will become possible, and closed doors will open, as you will discover in many ways.Collection: Thinking
If a musician wants to become a finer artist, he must first become a finer person.Collection: Artist
It is necessary to be concerned about the importance of educating a really beautiful human spiritCollection: Beautiful
Live by looking for things to do for other people.Collection: People
Any child can be developed, it depends on how you do itCollection: Children
The real essence of art turned out to be not something high up and far off - it was right inside my ordinary daily self - If a musician wants to become a finer artist, he must first become a finer person.Collection: Art
Man is a child of his environmentCollection: Children
I play with children so that I can learn from them.Collection: Children
Art is not in some far-off place. A work of Art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and abilityCollection: Art
Wrong education and upbringing produces ugly personalities, whereas a fine upbringing and good education will bring forth superior sense and feeling, as well as nobility and purity of mind.Collection: Personality
Art Exists for the human species. I think that all of the people who love art, those who teach art, and all of you should burn with the obligation to save the worldCollection: Art
A child's slowness in any subject indicates a deficiency in his environment, educational or otherwise.Collection: Children
If I simply do my best, I cannot complain even if I am taken to hell.Collection: Taken
Talent is no accident of birth. In today's society a good many people seem to have the idea that if one is born without talent, there is nothing he can do about it; they simply resign themselves to what they consider to be their fate.Collection: Fate
Man is the Child of his EnvironmentCollection: Children
I cannot live without children.Collection: Children